Tuesday, October 5th, 2010 at 9:00 am  |  90 responses

Kobe Bryant’s Knee: ‘About 60%’

Bryant tells ESPN that his knee is slowly rounding into form, and feeling better than it did during the NBA Finals this past June: “The Lakers traveled halfway across the world to officially open their three-peat bid with a haphazard 111-92 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves in Los Angeles’ first exhibition game of the season, and suddenly it seems Kobe Bryant’s surgically repaired right knee might be a world away from being fully healed. ‘I’m probably about 60 percent,’ Bryant said … After the Lakers beat the Celtics to capture the championship in Game 7 of the NBA Finals, Bryant claimed that removing the excess fluid in the knee improved his health for the rest of the postseason. ‘I drained my knee, and all of a sudden reeling off 30-point games like they’re 10-point games and everybody said how young I looked,’ Bryant said. ‘I was hurt.’ After Monday’s loss, Bryant revealed just how hurt he was, even after having the knee drained. ‘During the NBA Finals, it was extremely, extremely, extremely painful,’ Bryant said. ‘Now, not so much.’”

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  • KB8toSG8

    What I mean by LA’s triangle is that its different from CHI’s triangle. LA has got 2 big talented post players and I personally think that they should get a min of 12-16 touches each.

    And by no means do I want to say that KB is a better shooter than MJ. I’d say both are almost at the same level with MJ edging out on KB.KB is certainly up there. I already stated the reasons above.

  • karma

    The fact that you think Kobe is making excuses…IN THE GOD DAMN PRE SEASON means that you, JTaylor, is someone who should never be taken seriously. Let’s take a moment to laugh at this clown for being 10 years old in his analysis.

  • karma

    **are someone

  • VisionofGreatness

    He was asked a question about his knee and he answered it truthfully….how is that complaining? Kobe has people who say that he’s the best, LeBron has his people who say that he’s the best. At this point, it’s just old. He was advised by doctors. He knows his body. He doesn’t need to play 30 minutes in preseason games. When the regular season rolls around, he’ll be fine.

  • http://dsfjklf.com Jukai

    Wow, so we have the “who is better, Mike/Lebron/Kobe” ALREADY in a post? We’ve ALREADY brought up Mike’s elbow and have ALREADY dissected every single area of basketball and see HOW MUCH Mike is ahead or how CLOSE Kobe is to being better than Mike?
    Jesus Christ.

  • http://www.slamonline.com Eboy

    It may not be a bad idea to wait till some of these cats turn 18 before discussions are held with them.

  • http://www.kb24.com The Seed

    COSIGN–Great Points!
    KB8toSG8 Posted: Oct.5 at 12:04 pm
    KB8toSG8 Posted: Oct.5 at 12:08 pm
    Took the words, right out of my mouth!

  • The Cigar Guy

    Ya’ll act like Gasol is only effective in the paint with his back to the basket, when anyone worth their salt knows Gasol SPREADS the floor with a great midrange jumper, which opens up the paint for Kobe, but let’s be real, Kobe would rather shoot a bomb, than take it in the painted area, hence his shooting percentage isn’t as good as it could be. *blows smoke rings*

  • Robb

    @JTaylor21 you really love to be called an idiot don’t you?

  • Stillballin

    How Kobe can say he can beat lebron one-on-one on a sleep if he get a bad knee..go heat!!!

  • http://www.need4sheed.com Tarzan Cooper

    Nonsense on stilts

  • The Philosopher

    To The Masses:
    Only The King can fake an injury in a Playoff game AND get away with it.
    Period.
    We all know that there was not anything wrong with his arm, but it does not matter, for he is that good.
    @James-the-Balla:
    Great to see that you are doing fine.
    I do not hate on Kobe Bryant. He is a player for the ages.
    But, The King… is better.
    Oh, James:
    LONG… LIVE… THE KING.

  • http://slamonline.com tealish

    lol. Why do you guys respond to JTaylor? He’s as obnoxious as PANAGOPOULOUS, but knows less ball than him. There’s no value in the debate. Let him be. Kobe obviously is making excuses, while Bron took the time to heal up his elbow. No excuses from the KING! Alright, let’s move on.

  • http://stapledesign.com Spaceship Jay

    JTaylor, you recently posted that Kobe was a GREAT player on that “Intensity” Youtube clip… and you usually mention him when it comes to the top 5 players in the league… So what’s your real stance? You double talk alot. Lebron is a great player… He’s just a retard as far as decision making of the court.

  • Dar

    Dude, all this hate is depressing..

  • http://slamonline.com nbk

    I don’t understand why people are up in arms about anything. Bryant didn’t make an excuse, he was asked how his knee is doing. It seems like people (you know who you are) just want stuff to complain about. Kobe legitmately had a hurt knee, he didn’t play “great” against boston. he arguably wasn’t the best player on his team (*in wins) but he got the job done. You don’t succeed and make an excuse about it, you fail and make excuses. This is called an explanation – like the reason he sat out the end of training camp, and will likely miss games in the early part of the season.

  • VisionofGreatness

    @The Philosopher
    What kind of argument is that? Only LeBron can fake an injury because he’s that good? What sense does that make? There is nothing philosophical about you at all. If saying Long live the King is your idea of philosophy, that’s pretty sad.

  • VisionofGreatness

    I think The Philosopher is Maverick Carter.

  • CONEY ISLANDER

    KOBE’S BEEN IN THE LEAGUE SINCE HE WAS LIKE 9 SO OFCOURSE HIS BODY IS GONNA START BREAKING DOWN.

  • http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/olybb/news/story?id=5493184 Jackie Moon

    Kobe Bryant Max points in one game: 81. Lebron: 56. Michael Jordan: 69.

  • http://theurbangriot.com The Nupe

    Injured, hurt, sick or whatever – doesn’t really matter. Bottmom line is about production and nothing else should be used as an excuse. If he has a great game it’s ‘amazing that he worked through the pain’ if he has a horrible game it’s ‘evident that injury is really effecting him’. A lot of great players have played through injuries, sickness and/or pain etc. But only that player knows how much it really hurt and I hate making excuses for them. I won’t ever accuse a player of making up an injury or faking sick etc, I just expect them to perform.

  • http://slamonline.com Kieran

    Thanks Jackie Moon for that completely irrelevant statistic.

  • http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/olybb/news/story?id=5493184 Jackie Moon

    @ Kieran – The most relevant statistic is max points scored in a regular season game.

  • http://slamonline.com nbk

    no the most relevant statistic is wins. and championships won. if most points scored were relevant wouldn’t david robinson be a much higher rated player historically then he is….considering he has the 3rd highest point total in a game in history?

  • Michael

    wow Jtaylor, your such a kobe hater. Your arguments are so unreasonable but you cannot even see it. Go away hater the real ans are talking.

  • Michael

    fans*

  • JTaylor21

    ^You meant Stans right?

  • kobe32

    JTaylor21 hopefully your momma has more sense than you… yeah i said it, what of it

  • hammer

    Don’t know where or what jackie moon was going/doing w/that stat

  • The Fresh Prince of Nsam

    Shout out @ JTaylor21

  • The Fresh Prince of Nsam

    Shout out @ my main man The Philosopher!

  • The Fresh Prince of Nsam

    And Bean sucks.

  • The Fresh Prince of Nsam

    Shout out @ Bean 4 letting London’s fans down.

  • http://Www.slamonline.com Negative kreep

    I’ll ask again. How often does a Kobe/Lebron thread pop off with some dude talking sh!t about said player, make rediculouse claims about that player, only to claim that They only do it because of the rediculouse claims made by fanatics! ???…

  • http://Www.slamonline.com Negative kreep

    Everyones got The right to thier own opinion. Its cool, what makes Slam great. But cats that front and Make up reasons for typing sh!t when they know its BS? Thats something entirely different.

  • BostonBaller
  • JTaylor21

    Good looking The Fresh Prince of Nsam, keep up the great work and never let up on Bron haters.

  • Dr. Spaceman

    Why does this have to be Kobe vs Lebron? Is it because of Kobe’s 1 on 1 comments you feel you have some leverage against Lebron fans and you want to capitalize on it? wtf? pathetic.

    I’m not a Kobe fan, but I respect the man for risking his body to further injury by playing injured. It’s very clear he loves the game.

    Why don’t we all just get on Kenyon Martin and his “no money? no rush to come back” bullsh!t?

  • KB8toSG8

    Regarding my older posts. I don’t mean to start any debate. If you thought it was leading to it, I’m sorry.

    @Cigar Guy,

    Yes. Gasol can spread the floor with his shooting as well. But we all know he prefers to be where he is most effective – with his back to the basket in the paint posting up. His length and wingspan along with his skills are deadly from there. From mid-range, not so much. And KB surely does like a bomber lol. That’s widely known. Or else it won’t be so dramatic right? :P Besides, PJ already stated this: MJ worked hard to get open shots to knock down. KB works hard to knock down those ridiculous shots. And that is what makes both different yet special.

    @topic

    What Kobe said is true. Bron’s more of a facilitator type whose skills are maximised when he plays with others. KB’s game on the other hand is LETHAL 1-on-1.

  • The Philosopher

    What’s going on Prince?

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